Why are you selling SEO services If you don't know what to do?

Why in the world should it be a Wordpress site? It's probably better off that its not.

So forgetting the fact that apparently you are going to go ask this guy to pay you to do something you don't know how to do

Why SEO? It's a pizza joint. Unless you live in a very transient area (like somewhere with a military base nearby) where people are moving in and out of the area very frequently, they are probably wasting their money paying for SEO. People are not searching for pizza joints very often in Google. They are searching for a specific pizza joint that they want the phone number for.

They need branding. The money would be better spent on print ads, mailers to local residents, TV, and/or radio spots. They should also look at social media. Really just Facebook. Building up their presence on Facebook will bring in far more business than anything you can do SEO-wise.

Shit like this is what gives SEO a negative name.

You should have hired an expert in that field to help you prepare for the interview.

I pray you don't win cos I see someone losing money!

Totally agree with Mike, a food like this need branding not seo, you can actually compare this to Hersey's and Cadbury Chocolates. because of the branding they are the ones who shows in search results. they don't acually needed an seo to place them on top because they are already known because of their brands.

That's the real problem with freelancers. Someone does not know about the basics of SEO and he is going to attend an interview for SEO job. I am surprised at which criteria someone can choose a person like this?

First list business in Search engines like Google,also submit in local business directories and make your business visible..Classified Ads is one of the best way to promote..

Hi, I 'm also agree with Mike. In this case you may try for citation rather than SEO. Also, try to local advertisement. Best of luck.

If you have to do SEO it doesn't matter whether site is in wordpress or html.You have to do white hat activities for promoting the site

before the interview check with other local pizzerias that do have websites and confirm they would do a link exchange obviously you would want to set up an abc style linking system in addition you can check with other restaurants in his area....

See if you can get a job IN the pizza place and do SEO stuff for him on the side. You got a better shot that way from the way you sound hahaha.....

The only way I could see a blog being helpful for a pizza shop is If they do catering, they could brag about clients/gigs (portfolio).

You could blog about menu specials (deals) but that might be very limited depending on the size of the menu & how often they actually have new pizza deals.

Lol don't even offer SEO help until you've succeeded at it for yourself.

just blast the main website with thousands of crappy backlinks, and have 50% of the anchor text be the money keyword you're aiming for. many people will scream and cry and go "oh but sanf0rd that'll sandbox the site!!!!".... no.

if the site is aged, established, and has some authority, spam backlinks will work wonders. i've tried it on lots of other people's sites and it has worked wonderfully. for example, i've blasted asdf*dot*com and blankwebsite*dot*com (these websites are gibberish blank pages), and i got them ranked for the keywords i was aiming for simply by including high % of money keyword in the anchor text in the spammy backlinks.

of course if the site is new, then take link velocity into consideration.. then don't go all 50k+ backlinks gungho in one day like i did.

Zach, can you check the site SEO yourself? If not, you should really get a partner for this kid of a gig.

I think MikeFriedman's comment early in the thread was spot on. I can find most of the pizza places around here by searching for "pizza [suburb name]". Our favorite happens to be on the #1 spot, but the real reason to use them is that we like the staff.

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I suggest you create a Google Plus profile page and Facebook page for the business, fill the profiles with good content, images and reviews, and then worry about the SEO side of things later.

So long as the web pages are reasonably well optimized for the target search term (eg. pizza restaurants locationname), and you get a few decent backlinks, that will be probably all you need unless your client lives in a big city like New York

Good luck.

If you are thinking to sell your SEO services then first analyze their website, check their backlinks and after this analyze their competitors.
First do On page SEO work for their website so that you don't need to pay more efforts in On page SEO for your client.
After the completion of On page SEO; move to Off page SEO and do work in link building according to Penguin 2.1 and hummingbird. So that in future Google don't have any reason to hit your client website.
Promote the website on social media website for the marketing of the brand and services.
Keep updated your social media sites time to time.

I suggest you to hire SEO experts from a reliable place like SEOClerks.com, you can discuss your position with them also you can check their forum, you will get the most satisfied answers.

Because my personal experience with this site was excellent.

If you are going to sell the product in specific reason than you should target tv, news paper, radio and ads on local popular sites. it is good if you optimize your page by adding actionable content, reviews, Party Pics, Events Pics. It will help you more to attract visitors . Focus on Branding.

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